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and Rochester Theological Seminary, from which he was graduated in 1870. Since the latter year he has been pastor of Calvary Baptist Church, New York City. He was for many years a correspondent of The Chicago Standard, and was long connected editorially with The Christian Inquirer and The Baptist Quarterly Review. In addition to compiling a number of hymnals, of which the most important is the Calvary Selection of Hymns and Spiritual Songs (in collaboration with C. S. Robinson; New York, 1879) and Laudes Domini (in collaboration with C. S. Robinson; 1889), he has written Calvary Pulpit (New York, 1890); Divine Balustrades (Chicago, 1892) ; Quick Truths in Quaint Texts (2 series, 1895-1907); The Attractive Christ, and other Sermons (Philadelphia, 1898); Current Questions for Thinking Men (1898); Bible Difficulties and their Alternative Interpretations (New York, 1899); Celestial Lamp (Philadelphia, 1899); Old Book and Old Faith (New York, 1899); Round the World (Philadelphia, 1899) ; The Land and the Book (1900); The Questions of the Centuries (Cleveland, 1905) ; Advent, Christmas, New Year, Easter, and Other Sermons (1908) ; and The Christian Reign, and Other Sermons (1909).
McAULEY, CATHARINE ELIZABETH : Founder of the Sisters of Mercy; b. at Gormanstown House, near Dublin, Ireland, Sept. 29, 1787; d. at Dublin Nov. 11, 1841. She was born in the Roman Catholic faith, but, having been left an orphan, was brought up in a Protestant family. At the age of eighteen she was adopted by Mr. and Mrs. Callahan of Coolock House (north of Dublin), whom she converted to Roman Catholicism, and on the death of Mr. Callahan in 1822 she inherited his fortune. She now erected in Lower Baggot Street, Dublin, the House of our Blessed Lady of Mercy, which was completed in 1827. She and two companions then underwent the novitiate in the Presentation convent of George's Hill, Dublin. They returned to Baggot Street in Dec, 1830, and in Jan., 1831, gave the religious dress to six sisters who had been in charge during their absence. Thus was founded the order of Sisters of Mercy (see Mercy, Sisters of).
Bibliogbapht: Life of Catharine McAuley, New York, 1866; Dublin Review, March, 1847, pp. 1-25; DNB, xxxiv. 420-421.
McAULEY, JEREMIAH: Methodist missionary; b. in Kerry, Ireland, about 1839; d. in New York Sept. 18, 1884. He had no schooling and when he was thirteen years old emigrated to America. There he assisted his sister's husband in his business in New York, but soon, falling in with evil companions, he left his home and became a river thief. When only nineteen years old he was arrested for highway robbery and although innocent of the charge was convicted and sentenced to fifteen years' imprisonment at Sing Sing (Jan., 1857). While in prison he was converted, largely through the medium of Orville Gardner, a fellow convict, and he himself converted many others in the prison. Governor Dix, after proof was laid before him of McAuley's innocence of the charge against him, pardoned him (Mar. 8, 1864). On leaving prison he had no friends to help him lead an honest life,
and relapsed into his old ways. In 1872 he found Christian friends who assisted him, and in October of that year he opened at 316 Water Street a " Helping Hand for Men," where he did a great amount of good and saved many a man from evil courses. In 1876 the old building was replaced by a better one, and the mission was incorporated as the Mc- Auley Water Street Mission. In 1882 he began another mission on Thirty-second Street, near Sixth Avenue, where he labored until his death. Himself an ex-convict, he knew the hardships and temptations of such men and therefore could aid and save them far better than many a man who had not had his experience.
Bibliography: R. M. Offord, Jerry McAuley; his Life and Work, New York, 1885; H. Campbell, The Problem of the Poor; Record of quiet Work in unquiet Places, ib. 1882; Jerry McAuley, an Apostle to the Lost, 5th ed., ib., 1908 (by a number of writers) .
McBEE, SILAS: Protestant Episcopal layman; b. at Lincolnton, N. C, Nov. 14, 1853. He was educated at the University of the South, Sewanee, Tenn., from which he was graduated in 1876. Since 1896 he has been editor of The Churchman (New York). He is a member of the board of managers of the Prayer Book Society in America, and in theology describes himself as " a Catholic (in its real and not sectarian sense) Churchman."
MACBRIDE, JOHN DAVID : English orientalist; b. at Plympton (5 m. n.n.e. of Plymouth), Devonshire, June 28, 1778; d. at Oxford Jan. 24, 1868. He studied at Exeter College, Oxford (B.A., 1799; M.A., 1802), where he received a fellowship in 1800. In 1813 he was appointed principal of Magdalen Hall and lord almoner's reader in Arabic. These positions he held till his death. Though he was a layman, he frequently lectured on theology. His principal work was The Mohammedan Religion Explained (London, 1857). He also published Lectures Explanatory of the Diatessaron (2 vols., Oxford, 1835); Diatessaron, or the History of our Lord Jesus Christ compiled from the Four Gospels (1837); Lectures on the Articles of the United Church of England and Ireland (1853); The Syrian Church in India (1856); and Lectures on the Acts of the Apostles and on the Epistles (1858).
Bibliography: DNB, xxxiv. 429-430.
McBURNEY, ROBERT ROSS: General secretary of the New York City Young Men's Christian Association; b. at Castleblayney (12 m. s.e. of Monaghan), County Monaghan, Ireland, Mar. 31, 1837; d. at Clifton Springs, N. Y., Dec. 27, 1898. He was the son of a physician of repute. When seventeen he came to New York, where he learned the hatter's trade. Eight years later he became " librarian " of the New York Y. M. C. A., then occupying rooms on the second floor at 659 Broadway. Here he was associated with a group of young men who later became leading business men in the city, and together they were instrumental in building up the organization till in Dec, 1869, its first building, at Twenty-third Street and Fourth Avenue, costing with site $487,000, was completed and occupied. The following figures briefly contrast the work at the time he took charge of it and near the end of